Just for fun what’s this stuck in my tyre?

[Ian ParkinParticipant @ianparkin39383]

[Ian ParkinParticipant @ianparkin39383]

I noticed this the other day stuck in my tyre driven about 50 miles on it…still held air over the bank holiday weekend

what was revealed when the fitter removed the tyre ?

Answer tommorow

[David Davies 8Participant @daviddavies8]

'Sparklet' CO2 cartridge? Blunt end of course!

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Mini grinding stone

[Jeff DaymanParticipant @jeffdayman43397]

Looks like a Smith and Wesson .44 round. Is Clint Eastwood filming anywhere nearby?

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Dinosaur tooth

Neil

[Phil PParticipant @philp]

Dunno what that is, but I had a bizzare puncture the other day that cost me a new tyre. It had 4" nail through it.

Now that may not sound all that strange, until I tell you the head was inside the tyre with the pointy bit on the outside. work that one out ?

Phil

[ken king, King DesignParticipant @kenkingkingdesign]

I would guess a golf tee.

[vintage engineerParticipant @vintageengineer]

Ragbolt

[I.M. OUTAHEREParticipant @i-m-outahere]

Cap screw or torx screw .

I once had a 6mm hex driver punch a hole a tyre – it was the long type you use in a drill/driver , the front tyre must have flicked it up when it ran over it and it landed at just tue right angle for it to puncture the back tyre . The other one was when i got a new car i took the entry to my drive a fraction wider than usual and as my water meter is buried in a cut out in the concrete driveway i ran over it and the shaft for the shut off valve went straight through a brand new tyre – i have now fabricated a cover for the meter !

[Enough!Participant @enough]

It's the tip of Clint Eastwood's finger which got sheared off when you drove into him in his wheelchair.

[Jeff DaymanParticipant @jeffdayman43397]

[Brian GParticipant @briang]

This was annoying as with a Smart I had no spare tyre.

Brian

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, I recon a socket head bolt.

Regards Nick.

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 27/08/2019 22:40:39:

Dinosaur tooth

Neil

Triassic belemnite?

[Ian ParkinParticipant @ianparkin39383]

David Davies was right straight away

a NO cylinder

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Ah, 'hippy crack', N2O – you have no doubt parked in a quiet corner of a public car park, where the sniffers gather.

I suspect some smart Alec deliberately wedged it under your tyre at an angle, so it did what it did and penetrated the tyre.

[Ian ParkinParticipant @ianparkin39383]

David i did wonder if someone had done that

but up here in the north the streets are littered with the little blighters

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Ian

Plenty down here too!

My guess it was wedged deliberately – their shape means it is unlikely one will flip up if driven over.

Did you park in a multi storey car park prior to discovering it?

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

Pointy end just right for wedging in the tread gap, my guess deliberate.

[David Davies 8Participant @daviddavies8]

Ian

Can I claim my prize? Someone said it is a Hardinge HLV-H lathe?

Seriously, the gutters are littered with these cartridges around the Cardiff/Newport area. I see them lying there as I cycle in to work.

Is your Comet back in one piece now?

Cheers

Dave

[CarlParticipant @carl48656]

Looks like a bit of flint, maybe a Belemnite (bullet shape) fossil. Been to the beach ?

[SamsarandaParticipant @samsaranda]

I am amazed at how many nails and screws litter our highways; when I was young screws and nails were relatively expensive and money was tight, you didn’t scatter them around like nowadays. People obviously have too much money if they can afford to waste materials as they do, nothing more annoying than getting a puncture that wrecks your tyre. I collected my car after a bodywork repair, not my fault guv, and when I got home realised that one tyre had a puncture, when the offending item was removed by a tyre fitter it turned out to be a bodywork fastening which had obviously got into the tyre at the repairers, so annoying , cost a new tyre not recoverable with vulcanised repair.

Dave W

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Posted by Carl on 28/08/2019 14:18:52:

Looks like a bit of flint, maybe a Belemnite (bullet shape) fossil. Been to the beach ?

You didn't read Ian's post at 09:23:55 then?

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

When I was very young a mate at primary school had an imported GI Joe toy and together we made an aqualung set for it using the identical cylinders, but that had held CO2 for a soda syphon.

Got an Action Man as soon as they were launched in this country (UK) but my mate reckoned his imported GI Joe was cooler.

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